Read More about our work in Peru and other countries in Latin America----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In Peru, for the many school age children
not attending, we have developed a very successful means of educating
them up to the standard of children their age who are in school. We
prepare them to pass the entrance for the grades they belong in. We
help pay their registration fees, uniforms, class materials. Then
we support them
in school for two years: until they are well launched on their way
education. [The
challenge: 26% of Peru´s Children, the poorest, remain uneducated]

UN - WHO

Bruce Peru at the UN

Thanks to
Nancy Global health authorities now know we
are combining health care with teaching to effectively help
many street kids.

The Ministry of Education
have invited us
to install our informal schools for at-risk children, which
the Ministry of Education has until now been unable to reach,
within sellected primary and secondary schools. We agreed to
operate a pilot for two years, and thereafter have worked: in
several public and private schools in Peru..

The venue was the July 2008 WHO nursing conference held in Israel and attended by
health care officials from 33 countries.. Nancy and her husband,
Tom Palmer, MD, have conducted annual clinics for our children
and parents beginning in 2005.

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We have been getting enough
street kids into school via our carefully worked out method
that by early 2006 we started petitioning the Govt. to incorporate
this into their methodology..

In
April 2001 our founder arrived in Trujillo, Peru to put into
practice certain theories he had been working on designed to
solve the growing problem of school age children not receiving
education. Throughout Latin America between a fifth and a quarter
of all children are not in school.- most but not all of them
are qualified Street Children.
He did not come unprepared. His first project for at risk children
was in 1960, and he started his first NGO in 1976.
In Trujillo he went right to work proving and disproving one
theorem after another. Sponsor 15 mothers clubs if every mother
agreed to let him get their children into school. Open a chain
of free soup kitchens for children who agreed to let him put
them into school. Use theatre, music and dance to captivate
street children and register them into school. Funding came
from his own means and those of his family.
Soon he was joined by others - teachers, social workers, psychologists,
service personnel and lots of university students; some were
paid staff, most were volunteers.
For three years he and his team struggled against ignorance,
poverty, indifference, corruption, mediocre results and what
seemed to be a conspiracy to cover up the true number of children
being denied their right to an education: (the Government
said 96% of children in Peru attend school, UNICEF quoted this
figure) - but we produced evidence showing that only 76%
of the nations children were actually in school. Since the magnitude
of the problem is thus concealed, no otherinstitution or ngo
is dedicated to helping these children..
During this period lots of extremely poor children did get fed,
clothed, medicated and educated; by us: but never enough fast
enough to be considered "The Solution" ..
Then in early 2004 we began to implement what later developed
into our current, effective solution to locating, recruiting
and educating street children. Since then we have implemented
this solution throughout Peru, and since 2006 have been introducing
it into other Latin American countries.

Where are they now?.Since opening our programme to educate
street children in Latin America [2000 - Panama, 2001
- Peru etc.] we have gotten 3,006 children into schools..
Currently over two thousand street kids are in our Latin
America programmes. We found each child, started him
in one of our little shanty schools, caught him up with
children who had been in school all along. Finally we
enroll them in state school & sponsor them for two
years.
But what becomes of them when we finally
let go?.
..Eighty per cent stay in schoolHere
is a photo. account
of one group of our kids taken over 2 years

have been 162 such groups

First day with us: 15 Feb. 2005

Last day with us: 23 May. 2007

Dilema Faces Peru's Schools, Out-of-school kids
and challenges to any who help.

GARBAGE PATCH KIDS

Regional dump
- where .hundreds of children and mums live on roting
garbage, breathing toxic fumes.

Our campaign: "DON'T
FEEL SORRY FOR STREET CHILDREN!" is still working in centres
where lots of international tourists are encountering
's child laborers on a daily basis.The object
of the campaign is to recruit volunteers from the tourist
population who visit each year,

It takes 2 Years !. When we find a child, convince
the mother to let us get him or her educated, take them
into our little school, give them their first lessons;
finally get them up to the level of education for their
age, and matriculate them into a state school (paying
for uniforms and all expenses): our work for that child
is only just begun (2 years)

Above are club meetings7 June 2006We continue to work with each child,
and will do so for the next two years. Visiting every
month for a "Club Meeting" , at which we monitor their
progress, give prizes, work with their techers, our Social
Workers see how things are going at school, at home: and
we pay for wehatever their parents cannon or will not.
We do this for two years.

HIV / AIDS pandemic thrives
in Latin America

Sherrill Musty, the
publisher of the book "WHAT'S A VIRUS ANYWAY

The UN has
declared that the number infected with HIV/AIDS
in Latin America is greater than that of Europe
and the USA combined. If you live in one of
these countries you would not know this - it is
not reported in the media, talked about in the chambers
of Government. They are in denial. But we know it
is there, children and families in the communities
we help are suffering: and there is little help
available.

For over three decades
Latin America has endured the unenviable distinction
of having more street children per capita than any place
on earth. What is less known is that for every child
who sleeps in the street there are 300 more in practically
the same condition who live on the street by day but
at night sleep under a plastic sheet or in a woven read
or adobe hovel with their siblings. Both are classed
as "Street Children", the distinction being 'IN' the
street, as opposed to 'ON' the street [those 'IN' are
more likely to be addicted to drugs]. When we first
arrived in Peru we worked with both types of Street
Children, but for the past three years we have concentrated
our efforts and resources in helping the much larger
but less known population of Street Children who live
On the street; those abandoned in their own homes. During
this time we have managed to open hub centres in 8 cities,
with 24 satellite children's centres located in the
poorest barrios: where we educate, feed, medicate and
care for them Won't you join us!.

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Street kids,..........They come
to us..........as they are;we make of
them..........what they let us